Detailed instructions

This is a single page from an article. Please record the citations or references in footnotes - this should be at the end of each page

There may be several references in the footnotes, please record each in it's own block, use the + and - signs to add and delete blocks

If there are no references in the footnotes, please select "None".

If there is a section title of Reference, please select "Reference list".

If you see a footnote in which a reference has been partially cut-off, .

Recognizing references.

We expect these types of references, please select a type and then fill in the reference information:

Top 5 Journal article: These are for references of articles from the top 5 economic journals which are: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of economics, Review of Economic Studies. Please search for the reference in the drop down by typing in the title, ensure that page numbers match the returned reference.

Article: This could be of the form: Author(s),"article title," journal name, Volume no., issue?, Year published, pages

Book: This could be of the form: Author(s), "chapter title", in Book title , (City: Publisher, Year published) pages

Book: This could be of the form: Author(s), "chapter title", in Book title eds. *editor names*, (City: Publisher, Year published) pages

Note: if the reference is for the chapter of a book the author of the chapter is the recorded author, please record editors of books in the title in the form book title, ed./eds. editor names

Book: This could alternatively be of the form: Author(s), Book title , (City: Publisher, Year published) pages. Note how the book title is in italics

Note: if there is only an editor name supplied and no chapter author, please record editors of books as the author

Laws or hearings: any sort of hearing, legislation, command (cmd.) paper or regulation should be digitized here

News articles or magazines: newspapers such as the Economist or the New York Times. Please record the publication name in the publisher spot and include the text of the reference itself

Other: This is for references that do not fit any of the formats above. This includes Mimeographs (or mimeo.), unpublished manuscripts, phd thesis, independant studies, technical reports. Please record the author, title and year and the text of the reference itself as found in the footnote.

Note: "this journal" refers to the journal to which the page belongs, which is indicated above the input form with the title, page, author names and volume of the current page

Note: not all article references have issue numbers, issue is usually the month or season. For missing fields please type the number "0" or "none"

If you really cannot classify the reference as either Book or Article or an article belonging to the top 5 economic journals, please capture it as Other.